Wednesday, October 27, 2010

One more thing

No pictures (apparently forgot my camera all 8 times) but Grant joined Kyle in swim lessons this summer (the attached picture is just a favorite pre-swimming pic from later in the summer).  He went from complete refusal to even attempt entering the pool without his swim vest on Day 1 to a confident little swimmer by the end of the session.  He just seems to will himself across the pool.  A little heart wrenching for me, but the kid doesn’t panic and always seems to get from point a to b one way or another.  He even jumped off the big diving boards and the “fancy” pool.  Kyle had a great set of lessons as well and I’m sure could swim circles around me if I gave him the chance. 

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Slumber Party Pics

 

Summer Time Wrap Up

Since fall is in full swing, I thought a summer time wrap up was in order so I can close out the blogging year and get into book form. July was less eventful, but did include basketball camp for Kyle and a big lake trip with my dad and step-mom.  It was really so much fun to spend time with them and the trip brought back lots of memories of going to the lake as a kid.  I am glad the boys got that experience.  The events of the day usually consisted of swimming, tubing, more swimming, eating, then tubing, tubing and more tubing, the swimming.  There are no pictures of the accommodations and we can just that there was good reason for that.  The boys of course didn’t care and liked having sleepovers with pipa and grandma deb and going without a shower for two days didn’t kill me. I really hope the lake will be an annual or at least semi-annual thing, just maybe a different venue next year.   Upon our return, we immediately started to prepare for what I guess must be a rite of passage for all parents, Kyle’s first sleepover party.  I will post the pictures in a separate post because there are some memorable ones.  It was complete chaos, but the boys had fun, I think.  Mom brought over Lilly and had planned to take Grant and Ryan home with her which ended up being a good plan.  I think she just ended up grabbing all of the kids and running like a refuge, I don’t even remember saying goodbye.  The make your own Sundae bar was a big hit, especially the sour skittles and I was surprised how much fun they had with the craft (pictured).  I grossly underestimated the ease with which they would fall asleep, but after some encouragement from me, the last set of eyes were closed at 2 am.  Sounds so cliché, but I can not believe my baby is 8.  He is turning into such a great kid, I can barely contain my pride sometimes.

This is a really smart cat...

I call his name,,,,Grant.  Grant’s imagination has literally exploded, he does this several times a day, gets paper, grabs the nearest writing utensil and draws the most amazing stories.  Ryan typically follows suit and Kyle has always been a prolific artist.  I love this phase where they can draw anything.  Ryan also likes to copy favorite phrases from his brothers, one of the most memorable being “IIIII seeeeee Kyyyyylee’s unnnnnnnderrrrrweaaaarrrr!